CPD & Staffing

Looking to support your school's staff members to develop the skills they need to thrive in their roles? This Skills Audit Pack allows staff to explore their role-specific strengths and weaknesses, which can then be used to plan effective professional development pathways and career progression routes, aid in performance management and appraisal cycles, and retain teachers and other staff members by valuing the contributions they bring to your school's team. Ideal for heads, MAT leaders and anyone with responsibility for CPD, this handy pack contains exactly what you need to uncover your school's strengths and plan for professional development & growth.

🔒 Aligned to KCSIE 2026 

Ensure your school's safer recruitment processes are rigorous and compliant with clear guidance and ready-to-use checklists that keep every pre-employment check and single central record entry complete and audit-ready.

You'll get:

☑️ Safer Recruitment Compliance Guidance (6 pages) – covers the SCR, pre-appointment checks, conditional offers and what to do if a check raises a concern

☑️ Safer Recruitment Checklist Template – a to-do list for the whole recruitment process, from advertising through to appointment

☑️ Pre-Employment Checklist – record-keeping for the specific checks to complete once you have a preferred candidate

☑️ SCR Record-Keeping Checklist – audit your SCR itself for completeness against KCSIE requirements

Please note this pack does not replace safer recruitment training, which one panel member on every interview should have. Instead, this pack supports those who are already safer recruitment trained and those responsible for school recruitment record-keeping to stay organised and ensure every check for new staff members has been completed. These three checklists are also included within our full School Recruitment and Employment Compliance Pack, for schools building their whole recruitment process from scratch.

Ideal for headteachers, SBMs, office managers, DSLs and safeguarding link governors who want their safer recruitment process, pre-employment checks and SCR entries to be watertight.

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Understanding how well your school includes and supports every pupil – those with SEND, those who are disadvantaged, those known to children's social care and those who face less visible barriers to learning – requires more than your own professional judgement. It requires the voices of pupils, parents and staff, gathered systematically and analysed in a way that leads to meaningful action.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about inclusion, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys covering pupils (two versions for different age and ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, including targeted questions for pupils and families of children with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils known to children's social care and those facing other barriers to learning

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on achievement involves more than asking whether pupils are making progress. To build an accurate and actionable picture, you need questions that get beneath surface-level satisfaction, exploring how well pupils across different groups are supported to achieve, how parents understand and engage with their child's learning, and how confident staff feel in assessing, tracking and addressing underachievement.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about achievement, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys – a pupil survey in two versions (emoji scale for younger or less confident pupils; Likert scale for older or more able pupils), a parent survey and a staff survey – all aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 

☑️ A question and statement bank covering progress and understanding across the curriculum, attitudes to learning and motivation, communication and vocabulary, support for overcoming gaps, SEND and individual needs, preparation for the future, breadth of curriculum achievement and assessment practice

☑️ A survey analysis template with tally tables, open question theme tables, a summary and next steps section, and an Overall Summary Triangulation table with RAG ratings

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to guide you through each stage of the process, and four survey letter templates for communicating with parents and staff before and after the survey

☑️ An 18-page guidance document covering the full survey cycle, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results

All documents (except the PDFs) are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

🔄 Updated for 2026

A strong governing board starts with an honest picture of where it stands. This pack gives chairs of governors, clerks and headteachers the tools to evaluate board skills and knowledge systematically, helping the governing body to identify gaps, plan for governor recruitment and supporting governor development with confidence.

You'll get:

☑️ Governing Body Skills Matrix and Action Plan – maps the collective skills and experience your governors bring to the board across ten categories, identifies gaps and turns findings into a prioritised recruitment and training plan

☑️ Governing Body Knowledge Audit – evaluates the board's knowledge across ten governance areas, with example evidence and suggested actions built in to help you assess where you are and plan next steps

☑️ Governing Body Profile – a quick-reference record of every governor's appointment details, roles, training dates and declared interests, designed to be updated annually and whenever the board composition changes

☑️ Governing Body Self-Evaluation Form – a RAG-rated self-evaluation framework covering eight key areas of governance effectiveness, with evidence prompts and a summary table to agree priorities and next steps as a board

Ideal for chairs of governors, vice-chairs, clerks to governors and headteachers who are carrying out an annual governance review, organising governor CPD or  improving governor effectiveness through role and succession planning.

This handy bundle focuses on exploring your financial management skills in order to effectively manage your school budget. Designed for headteachers, business managers or anyone with responsibility for finance in schools, the three resources in this pack can help you determine your current level of understanding about school budget management and, crucially, what knowledge and skills you need to develop to manage the budget effectively. For this reason, it's ideal for new heads, academy headteachers or anyone stepping into school budget management for the first time. 

👉 Looking for more budget support? These templates are also available in the full School Budget Management Pack, which can also help you to plan your budget and identify where cost savings can be made.

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Personal development is one of the most far-reaching areas Ofsted evaluates, covering everything from character and resilience to careers, mental health, British values and enrichment. Knowing what pupils, parents and staff actually think about how well your school delivers in this area is essential for honest self-evaluation, and gathering that feedback well takes more than a quick questionnaire.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about personal development and well-being, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys covering pupils (two versions for different age and ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, covering opportunities and participation, life skills, well-being and support, preparation for the future, British values, school culture and careers

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Gathering meaningful feedback on attendance and behaviour from pupils, parents and staff takes more than sending out a form. It requires careful planning, well-designed questions, a structured approach to analysis and a clear process for sharing findings back with your school community.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about attendance and behaviour, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use survey templates covering pupils (two versions for different age/ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, so you can adapt or extend the surveys to suit your school's context

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.